Monday, May 23, 2016

Tomato pepper eggplant plantings May 23/16

Planted Tomatoes, Eggplant Peppers
All with plastic mulch
Roma tomatoes under arches
Brandywine, Sicilian and Oxheart tomatoes at back by compost pallets
Some peppers and eggplant under greenhouse and plastic
Some in boxes, some in first garden bed
Past Willows planted the small assorted peppers

Roma and San Marzano Tomatoes- Bought at Fortinos
2 boxes each at $2.95 per box- 5-6 plants per pot
Greenhouse cover for pepper and eggplant
Tomato- Sicilian, Oxheart, Brandywine

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Another bed seeded may 17/16

Seeded another bed
Lettuce half row Red Sails Dam13
Lettuce half row Dam13 Dixter- (Red Romaine)

Carrot half row Berlicummer Dam15
Carrot half row Rainbow hybrid Dam16

Beet Touchstone Gold Dam16
Beet Early Wonder Dam15

Coriander- cilantro OSC13 half row
half row Broad leaf Batavian Endive OSC13

half row American Seed15 Turnip Purple Top White Globe
half row Tiller Radish

Swiss Chard Ruby Red Dam13

may put red radish in between rows

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Squash cuke seeding May10/16

Cucumber Mercury Dam16 -9 cells at 2pp
Golden Hubbard- Dam16- 3 pp- 4 cells
Waltham butternut squash- Dam15- 4 cells - 3pp
Burgess Buttercup squash- dam15 -3pp- 4 cells
Watermelon- Crimson Sweet-garden corner16-3pp- 2cells
Pumpkin- Jack O'lantern/ garden corner16- 2pp- 5 cells
Golden delight zucchini- Dam16-2pp- 3 cells
Zucchini- dark green- American16- 2pp- 7 cells

May 9/16 seed plant

Parsnips- Dam16 Albion Hybrid
Joi Choi (kind of Bok Choy) plants box of 5 $2.95 at Satellite Gardens
Radicchio plants box of 5 $2.95 at Satellite Gardens
Seeded 3 rows of parsnips-Albion- Dam16- double row 2-3" apart
With daikon radish for markers

Monday, May 9, 2016

Planted 6 red cabbage + sugar snaps




Peas along the fence
Cabbages along in front of the mini roses
Had transplanted pink rose from in front of the Rose of Sharon

Put two more patio stones along side of deck/ moved a couple of pachysandra out of the way

Moved the last of plants from downstairs to the veranda
Up potted some eggplant and pepper

Rototilled the gardens- tilled in bags of leaves from last fall from Heritage Green
Rototilled the low spot by the sump pump drain- sprinkled grass seed

Mowed the back hayfield

Weeded the last garlic bed- fertilized it and mulched with shredded paper

Saturday- cut wild garlic from under front hawthorn- made a green fry


May 25, 2016- sugar snap peas just starting to come up

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Gerry Okimi
Turf King Hamilton Halton Haldimand
95 Hempstead Dr Unit 14, Hamilton ON L8W 2Y6
905.318.6677
Website: http://www.turf-king.ca/
Email: hamilton@turf-king.ca


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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Sugar snaps April 16/2016

Seeded Sugar Snap Peas- a climbing variety OSC16
Where climbing beans grew last year

Also seeded carrots beets lettuce arugula spinach and Swiss chard

Put these to pots

Chestnuts from front yard of Mitchell on Lake Erie
Nanking Cherry from Joan Cunnington
Burr Oaks from Burlington condo
Ash?

May 25, 2016- ash seedlings have sprouted
But nothing else so far